VTRU vs. LINC, NRDY, APEI, UTI, QSG, PRDO, REAL, FUBO, JOUT, and MPX
Should you be buying Vitru stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vitru include Lincoln Educational Services (LINC), Nerdy (NRDY), American Public Education (APEI), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), QuantaSing Group (QSG), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), RealReal (REAL), fuboTV (FUBO), Johnson Outdoors (JOUT), and Marine Products (MPX). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Lincoln Educational Services (NASDAQ:LINC) and Vitru (NASDAQ:VTRU) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, profitability, earnings and valuation.
Lincoln Educational Services has a net margin of 6.57% compared to Lincoln Educational Services' net margin of 5.44%. Lincoln Educational Services' return on equity of 10.95% beat Vitru's return on equity.
Lincoln Educational Services has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vitru has a beta of 0.01, meaning that its stock price is 99% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Lincoln Educational Services had 3 more articles in the media than Vitru. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Lincoln Educational Services and 3 mentions for Vitru. Vitru's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Lincoln Educational Services' score of 0.17 indicating that Lincoln Educational Services is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lincoln Educational Services has higher revenue and earnings than Vitru. Lincoln Educational Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vitru, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lincoln Educational Services currently has a consensus price target of $14.38, indicating a potential upside of 22.13%. Given Vitru's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Lincoln Educational Services is more favorable than Vitru.
Lincoln Educational Services received 256 more outperform votes than Vitru when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.19% of users gave Lincoln Educational Services an outperform vote while only 58.62% of users gave Vitru an outperform vote.
72.2% of Lincoln Educational Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.5% of Vitru shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.8% of Lincoln Educational Services shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Vitru shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Lincoln Educational Services beats Vitru on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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